Luke Van Dongen

By Luke Van Dongen I am a huge fan of Jim Womack's ability to identify and describe problems within complex systems simply and absolutely. Womack...

By Luke Van DongenNext in the blog series on the topic of applying lean tools to university courses is 'Go & See', which I...

By Luke Van Dongen For me, the topic of applying lean principles and tools to the classroom was the best part of the Linking Lean...

By Luke Van DongenI was very fortunate to have met Bob Emiliani at the Linking Lean Thinking to Education conference in Worcester Mass last...

My apologies for the delay in following through with posts from the EdNet / LEAN conference. Here's a bit on one of the...

I saw the phrase in the title of this post on a BFI bin for recycling pop cans. I believe BFI was purchased...

Last week I attended the joint meeting of LEAN (Lean Education Academic Network) and EdNet (Lean Aerospace Initiative Education Network) in Worcester Massachusetts. Here's...

For those interested in lean applications to education, there is an upcoming conference that you may want to check out.The conference is co-hosted by...

I'm sure that among the readers of The Lean Blog there there is nothing but support for the lean principles of developing and respecting...

Like Mark, I'm frustrated today.Recently I've been working to support a quality improvement blitz within a manufacturing facility. The plant is taking a step...

Are lean and flexible equivalent terms?I've been seeing more and more about flexibility and hearing the term used interchangeably with lean. Flexibility, mainly referring...

In the age of file sharing, FTP sites, all sorts of web based collaboration tools and the ever dreaded email attachment, it's as though...